Links: privacy, security, phones
Feb. 4th, 2020 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soniaThe first two links give fairly straightforward steps to improve your privacy. I highly recommend them.
Facebook knows what you're doing on other sites and in real life. This tool lets you see what it knows about you. by Aaron Holmes. I have a Facebook account that I never post to and rarely read. I was happy to see that no outside data is leaking into it according to this tool.
Freaked Out? 3 Steps to Protect Your Phone by Stuart A. Thompson and Gus Wezerek. "Your smartphone is one of the world’s most advanced surveillance tools." How to stop sharing location with apps, turn off your Ad ID, and stop Google from sharing your location. I keep location off unless I need it for an app I'm using right then, and don't give any apps permission to use it in the background.
via Zandar.
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands by Drew Harwell. Horrifying. Facebook started out on college campuses too.
Fast Charge: It’s over for the smartphone – we just don’t know it yet by Chris Smith. I don't agree with the dramatic conclusion, but the article still raises interesting issues. Becoming ubiquitous isn't the same as "doom."
Who’s Listening? Smartphones and Psychotherapy by Maggie Mulqueen. In contrast with the previous link.
Facebook knows what you're doing on other sites and in real life. This tool lets you see what it knows about you. by Aaron Holmes. I have a Facebook account that I never post to and rarely read. I was happy to see that no outside data is leaking into it according to this tool.
Freaked Out? 3 Steps to Protect Your Phone by Stuart A. Thompson and Gus Wezerek. "Your smartphone is one of the world’s most advanced surveillance tools." How to stop sharing location with apps, turn off your Ad ID, and stop Google from sharing your location. I keep location off unless I need it for an app I'm using right then, and don't give any apps permission to use it in the background.
via Zandar.
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands by Drew Harwell. Horrifying. Facebook started out on college campuses too.
When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their “attendance points.”
And when they skip class? The SpotterEDU app sees that, too, logging their absence into a campus database that tracks them over time and can sink their grade. It also alerts Rubin, who later contacts students to ask where they’ve been. His 340-person lecture has never been so full.
Fast Charge: It’s over for the smartphone – we just don’t know it yet by Chris Smith. I don't agree with the dramatic conclusion, but the article still raises interesting issues. Becoming ubiquitous isn't the same as "doom."
Feature stagnation, unjustifiable stratospheric pricing and rising issues with privacy, addiction and mental health spell doom for the smartphone. We’re entering an era of smartphone dystopia and its days on top are numbered.
Who’s Listening? Smartphones and Psychotherapy by Maggie Mulqueen. In contrast with the previous link.
Being unavailable for as little as an hour without fear of repercussion is no longer possible for many people. In the workplace, schools and within families, we are always expected to be available. Even patients with a standing weekly appointment, who are accustomed to the routine and sanctity of the therapy session, are often interrupted during a session with a non-emergency request. For a few people the consequence of being unreachable is truly unacceptable, but for most, having their smartphone on is merely a habit.
